2010 Design Awards
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The Connecticut Chapter of the American Institute of Architects 2010 Design Awards Celebrating the accomplishments of Connecticut architects and the excellence of Connecticut architectural projects. JURORS David P. Manfredi, FAIA, LEED AP, Elkus Manfredi Architects, Boston, MA Anthony Vidler, Dean and Professor of the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at The Cooper Union, NY Pamela Hawkes, FAIA, Ann Beha Architects, Boston, MA Built Projects North Branford Intermediate School, North Branford, CT Newman Architects, LLC, New Haven, CT Volo Aviation, Stratford, CT Beinfield Architecture PC, Norwalk, CT Fairfield Jesuit Community Center, Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT Gray Organschi Architecture, New Haven, CT Rogers International Baccalaureate Environmental Magnet School, Stamford, CT Tai Soo Kim Partners, Hartford, CT Storage Barn, Washington, CT Gray Organschi Architecture, New Haven, CT Single Family Residential Projects Watersheds, Coastal Rhode Island Roger Ferris + Partners, Westport, CT The Bridge House, Kent, CT Joeb + Partners Architects, LLC, Greenwich, CT 44PL, Greenwich, CT Joeb + Partners Architects > LLC, Greenwich, CT Spiral House, Old Greenwich, CT Joeb + Partners Architects > LLC, Greenwich, CT Lanterns, Westport, CT Gray Organschi Architecture, New Haven, CT Cottage, Guilford, CT Gray Organschi Architecture, New Haven, CT Unbuilt Mill River Park Canopy, New Haven, CT Gray Organschi Architecture, New Haven, CT Preservation The Betty Ruth and Milton B. Hollander Foundation Center, Hartford, CT Crosskey Architects, LLC, Hartford, CT Jonathan Edwards College, Yale University, New Haven, CT Newman Architects LLC, New Haven, CT Architecture: the Encompassing Art Firestone Pavilion, Longmeadow, Massachusetts Newick Architects, New Haven, CT Chapel, Fairfield Jesuit Community Center, Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT Gray Organschi Architecture, New Haven, CT
Transcript of 2010 Design Awards
The Connecticut Chapter of the American Institute of Architects
2010 Design Awards
Celebrating the accomplishments of Connecticut architects and the excellence of Connecticut architectural projects.
JURORS
David P. Manfredi, FAIA, LEED AP, Elkus Manfredi Architects, Boston, MA Anthony Vidler, Dean and Professor of the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at The Cooper Union, NY
Pamela Hawkes, FAIA, Ann Beha Architects, Boston, MA
Built Projects
North Branford Intermediate School, North Branford, CT Newman Architects, LLC, New Haven, CT
Volo Aviation, Stratford, CT
Beinfield Architecture PC, Norwalk, CT
Fairfield Jesuit Community Center, Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT Gray Organschi Architecture, New Haven, CT
Rogers International Baccalaureate Environmental Magnet School, Stamford, CT
Tai Soo Kim Partners, Hartford, CT
Storage Barn, Washington, CT Gray Organschi Architecture, New Haven, CT
Single Family Residential Projects
Watersheds, Coastal Rhode Island
Roger Ferris + Partners, Westport, CT
The Bridge House, Kent, CT Joeb + Partners Architects, LLC, Greenwich, CT
44PL, Greenwich, CT
Joeb + Partners Architects > LLC, Greenwich, CT
Spiral House, Old Greenwich, CT Joeb + Partners Architects > LLC, Greenwich, CT
Lanterns, Westport, CT
Gray Organschi Architecture, New Haven, CT
Cottage, Guilford, CT Gray Organschi Architecture, New Haven, CT
Unbuilt
Mill River Park Canopy, New Haven, CT
Gray Organschi Architecture, New Haven, CT
Preservation
The Betty Ruth and Milton B. Hollander Foundation Center, Hartford, CT Crosskey Architects, LLC, Hartford, CT
Jonathan Edwards College, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Newman Architects LLC, New Haven, CT
Architecture: the Encompassing Art
Firestone Pavilion, Longmeadow, Massachusetts Newick Architects, New Haven, CT
Chapel, Fairfield Jesuit Community Center, Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT
Gray Organschi Architecture, New Haven, CT
The Connecticut Chapter of the American Institute of Architects
2010 Design Awards
BUILT DESIGN
Commercial, Institutional, Multi-Family Residential, Interiors
North Branford Intermediate School, North Branford, CT Newman Architects, LLC, New Haven, CT
Photographer: Robert Benson Photography
Jury comment: In this renovation and addition, the architects have used a careful combination of composition and scale change to bread up and individualize what was a mundane 60’s school. Careful use of materials indicates the shifting functions inside and creates an identity for each teaching unit.
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Volo Aviation, Stratford, CT Beinfield Architecture, PC, South Norwalk, CT
Photographer: Michele Scotto, Sequined Asphault Studio
Jury comment: This is an extraordinarily simple hangar for five small jets. The architects have used a combination of industrial materials to an extraordinary effect, capturing interior light and bringing translucency. to the interiors.
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Fairfield Jesuit Community Center, Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT Gray Organschi Architecture, New Haven, CT
Photographer: Robert Benson Photography
Jury comment: The center reflects an intuitive connection between the mission of calm, meditative, and community spirit with a plan that reflects spatial balance between individual and communal life. The building captures views; the use of natural materials is confident and tranquil. The jury cited this project for special commendation.
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2010 Design Awards
Rogers International Baccalaureate Environmental Magnet School, Stamford, CT Tai Soo Kim Partners, Hartford, CT
Photographer: Paul Warchol
Jury comment: This pre-K to 8th grade school delivers on its promise of studying the environment on all scales. It produces the micro environments which are the subject of its mission. The building makes great use of recycled materials and sits on a reclaimed brown field site. The jury commends this project for its connection of mission, form and materials.
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Storage Barn, Washington, CT Gray Organschi Architecture, New Haven, CT
Photographer: Bo Crockett
Jury comment: This deceptively simple project is both building and sculpture in the landscape. It celebrates a simple and mundane activity and demonstrates the opportunity for great achievement in every commission. The jury also applauds its sustainable strategies.
The Connecticut Chapter of the American Institute of Architects
2010 Design Awards
BUILT DESIGN Residential Design
Watersheds, Coastal Rhode Island Roger Ferris + Partners, Westport, CT
Photographer: Michael Biondo
Jury comment: This series of simple gable forms is manipulated to capture sunlight and views. The jury was excited by the elegant and spare detailing and was delighted with the contrast of taut, long form and lantern ends. These forms feel so natural on this site.
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The Bridge House, Kent, CT Joeb Moore + Partners Architects, Greenwich, CT
Photographer: David Sundberg/ Esto
Jury comment: Set in a dramatic landscape, 300 feet above Kent falls, this house is poised carefully on its site, allowing the site to flow through the house. The jury was fascinated with the play of warm and cool texture and color. The house also responds to the seasons with carefully framed views, it also provides intricate and warm interior viewing chambers.
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44 PL, Greenwich, CT Joeb Moore + Partners Architects, Greenwich, CT
Photographer: David Sundberg/Esto
Jury comment: This single family residence sited on a series of long retaining walls takes the form of a traditional New England house, and by abstraction and use of materials takes its vernacular inspiration to a heightened level of sculptural modernity. The architect sustained the rigor of scale throughout, enabling a considerably sized house to takes its place easily on this site.
The Connecticut Chapter of the American Institute of Architects
2010 Design Awards
Spiral House, Old Greenwich, CT Joeb Moore + Partners Architects, Greenwich, CT
Photographer: Jeff Goldberg/Esto
Jury comment: Beautifully drawn and equally well executed, this house, poised on the edge of Long Island Sound, traces a spiral from entry to upper chambers. Poised like a heron, the house distills its vernacular and modernist sensibilities in a spare aesthetic of calm and elegance.
The Connecticut Chapter of the American Institute of Architects
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Lanterns, Westport, CT Gray Organschi Architecture, New Haven, CT
Photographer: Bo Crockett
Jury comment: In this group of garden pavilions, the architects have achieved, with extreme simplicity and economy of materials, a flexible set of seating and living shelters. These combine to make space. These objects are both furniture and architecture luminous at night and textured by day. The fabrication of panels is ingenious. The jury was very impressed.
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2010 Design Awards
Cottage, Guilford, CT Gray Organschi Architecture, New Haven, CT
Photographer: Bo Crockett
Jury comment: This small guest house, with its green roof, takes the simplicity of a cube and the vernacular of New England geometry and abstracts into an elegant play of cubic and diagonal geometrics. The jury was impressed with the spare use of materials that reinforces the simplicity of form. It sits on the site lightly and with grace.
The Connecticut Chapter of the American Institute of Architects
2010 Design Awards
UNBUILT DESIGN
Mill River Park Canopy, Stamford, CT Gray Organschi Architecture, New Haven, CT
Jury comment: Using a series of delicate experiments with the topological characteristics of wood, the proponents have created a delicately woven canopy along the river walk that elegantly illustrates a stitched connection between river and city.
The Connecticut Chapter of the American Institute of Architects
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BUILT DESIGN Preservation
The Betty Ruth & Milton B. Hollander Foundation Center, Hartford, CT Crosskey Architects, LLC, Hartford, CT
Photographer: Crosskey Architects, LLC
Jury comment: The jury applauded the intent of the developer and the ingenuity of the architect in preserving this historic Neo-Colonial building and the important interior details of public areas. The effort renders the building a new life as mixed, retail/residential use.
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2010 Design Awards
Jonathan Edwards College, Yale University, New Haven, CT Newman Architects, LLC, New Haven, CT
Photographer: Peter Aaron/Esto
Jury comment: The jury recognized this project’s extremely sensitive renovation of the interior spaces of a Gothic Revival college. It introduces a range of new community and educational uses and contemporary services while preserving a balanced contrast of old and new.
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ARCHITECTURE: THE ENCOMPASSING ART
Firestone Pavilion, Longmeadow, MA Newick Architects, New Haven, CT
Photographer: Craig D. Newick, AIA
Jury comment: The jury praised the sensitive handling of intersecting walls, beams and planes and the abstract sculptural quality of enclosures, such that it was reminded of a composition by the sculptor Donald Judd.
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2010 Design Awards
Chapel, Fairfield Jesuit Community Center, Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT Gray Organschi Architecture, New Haven, CT
Photographer: Robert Benson Photography
Jury comment: This submission truly fulfills the intent of this category, making connection from detail to the whole. It rescues damaged European beech from the site to fabricate altar furniture in such a way as to preserve the grain of wood and at the same time to celebrate the meditative simplicity of the whole.
